paddlefish

[ pad-l-fish ]

/ ˈpæd lˌfɪʃ /

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noun, plural pad·dle·fish·es, (especially collectively) pad·dle·fish.

a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.

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Origin of paddlefish

An Americanism dating back to 1680–90; paddle¹ + fish

Words nearby paddlefish

paddle, paddleball, paddleboard, paddleboat, paddle box, paddlefish, paddle one's own canoe, paddle steamer, paddle tennis, paddle wheel, paddle worm

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How to use paddlefish in a sentence

To determine when this turmoil took place, During and her collaborators examined filter-feeding paddlefishes and sturgeons found in the deposit with spherules caught in their gills.
It was probably springtime when an asteroid did the dinosaurs in|Kate Baggaley|February 23, 2022|Popular-Science
Of the former one species is Chinese, and the other is the shovel-nosed spoonbill or paddlefish of the lower Mississippi River.
Zoology: The Science of Animal Life|Ernest Ingersoll
He spoke of it to his friend of the paddlefish investigation.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries|Francis Rolt-Wheeler

British Dictionary definitions for paddlefish

paddlefish

/ (ˈpædəlˌfɪʃ) /

noun plural -fish or -fishes

a primitive bony fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River, having a long paddle-like projection to the snout: family Polyodontidae

a similar and related Chinese fish, Psephurus gladius, of the Yangtze River

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